The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

/ I1D-bITS: SUNDAY IN New OK Is becoming
| known as Thirst-day.
| PARIS claims to have $500. 900 rats There is
no excuse for the high price of French kid gloves
| CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE remembers Emma Alb
bott as poor girl singing in the streets of To-
| ledo.
TID-BITs It is said explorer Stanley uses
| snuff while travelling in very hot regions. Bob
| Ingersoll should paste this in his hat. =
| THE remains of Hank" Monk. the historic
stage driver of the Pacific slope. lie in the City
| Cemetery at Carson, New. An effort is being
| made to decorate his grave and lnclose 1t by a
| handsome railing
| MISS MARIA MITCHELL. the astronomer, was
| the daughter of a small farmer in Nantucket,
| who was obliged to exc out his income by teach
| ing school at 50 week. Maria was constantly
occupied with household duties.
IN Liszts memoirs occurs the following: II
knew George Eliot and her friend, Mr.. Lewes,
Lewes were was rather delicate about present
ing Miss Evans to me owing to the relations ex-
listing between them. l told him, however. that
l did not care.
our apti-poverty society" Workingman-"Glad
to do it. just count me inn Henry George
Zone dollar. please" Workingman-"I have
no dollar" Henry George-"Move On. This
fellow behind you has money. We are not run
ming any free snap.
THE Crown Princess of Germany has written
to Princess Beatrice of England that the Crown
Prince and herself would be delighted to receive
visit from their sister, but that they ae
knowledge the presence of Prince Henry of Bat
tenberg in any other way than as a member of
Princess Beatrice's suite.
Town Topics: That's not a bad landscape
the new one there. mean. Who painted it,"
ga yohng chap named Sincere" HAS he stud
led abroad2" Eyes, indeed. Why he was IA
vorite pupil of Raphael, Michael Angelo. or
nrln n fhaF r.th tph 14vf% k1x~
remember which it was"
PRINCE VICTOR NAPOLEON wrote recently to
M Albert Duruy. thanking him for a sketch of
Napoleon Bonaparte which appeared in Figa-
70 CParis and adding: Napoleon created mod
ern France, Code, Concordat University. Bank,
Legion of Honor, administrative, judicial and
financial organizaton-everyt thing dates from
him and comes from him."
THE highest oratorical honors at Cornell Uni
versiIy this year have been won by nephews of
ex-President Andrew D. White. Horace White
took the Woodford prize for an grafton on 1.-THE
Political Integrity of Gladstone and last week
his brother Andrew S. White, won the medal in
the junior prize contest Both are the sons of
II. IS. White, of Syracuse
STRANGE coincidence recently occurred in a
divorce case before Massachusetts court. The
defendant bore the historic name of Daniel
Webster. Strangely enough the woman who
sued for divorce was Catherine LIE Roy, which
name was borne by the second wife of the great
New Hampshire orator and statesman. So far
as could be learned, the plaintiff and defendant
not in any way related to the famous people
whose names they bear.
WHEN your wife employed cross-eyed girl whose
talent is to shirk.
Who takes four afternoons week and never does her
work;
Who talks back constantly and her dire clatter will
not cease,
Who apron spotted DER with stains of dirt
and grease;
Whose grammar is distinguished by its most sur
prising badness.
You think your wife is crazy but there's method
in Der madness.
Merchant Traveller
AMONG the attractions of the convict settle
ment OF Noumea is an orchestra which is said to
be the best in Oceanica- It is composed of 12O
instrumentalists, and is conducted by a form er
musician of the Paris opera. who is under a life
sentence to hard labor for murder. On SUNDAYS
and Thursdays this band plays for three hours
the public square before an assemblage of the
authorities and principal tradesmen. No wonder
that New Caledonia has no terrors for French
criminals
Mrs HETTIE GREEN, the Wall street woman
of many millions, is mighty particular in select
ing the modest room she occupies in boarding
house. Her first question to the landlady is:
Are there any reporters in the house2' If not,
she inquiries: Have any reporters ever lived in
the houseE If such disaster has occurred to
the landlady, Mrs. Green cares not to hear when
1t happened; the mere fact that reporters have
had habitation in the house is enough. She
says Good day" and is gone.
GEN. JAMES B. STEEDMAN, the hero of Chicka.
manga, was magnificent type of American.
He was a man of wonderful observation, strong
convictions and phenomenal courage. His fell
low-townsman, William J..Finlay admired and
revered him. After the great soldiers death
Mr. Finlay went quietly to work, secured de-
signs for handsome monument and erected
the same at his own expense. He will unveil
the statue and formally present it to the city of
Toledo on the Goth inst.
Mr.. STRAKosCH relates in his memoirs that
the religious education of Nine Patti was en-
tirely neglected in her youth, and that when she
was married in 1868 at the Catholic Church at
Chaplain she had conception of her religious
duties. This reminds Professor Hanslick, of
Vienna, of visit he once paid to Patti at vi
emma on a Good Friday. He found the prima
donna engaged in demolishing fine piece of
roast beef. He expressed his surprise thereat
whereupon Nine Patti exclaimed. somewhat
piqued And why shouldn't I eat meat
Good Fridayp But have you never heard that
the church forbids the eating of meat during
Easter week9' NO" Patti exclaimed, ''and I
don't believe it, either. I am sure it's only one
of your jokes"
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